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ACM Transactions on Storage
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ACM Transactions on Storage

1553-3077

Published by: ACM

https://dl.acm.org/journal/tos

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Computer Science 479 66 75 12

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 73
Documents by Best Scientists*: 78
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 52
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.807
Impact Factor: 2.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at ACM Transactions on Storage?

The journal primarily tackles Operating system, File system, Distributed computing, Parallel computing and Computer data storage. Ext4, Self-certifying File System, Block (data storage), Device file and Flash file system are among the concentrations of Operating system that garnered much attention in ACM Transactions on Storage. It focuses on File system but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Versioning file system, File system fragmentation, Journaling file system, Embedded system and Distributed File System.

Versioning file system study tackled is connected to the field of Unix file types. ACM Transactions on Storage connects the study in Embedded system with the closely related area of Latency (engineering). Issues in Distributed computing were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Scalability, Server and Erasure code.

The research on Parallel computing tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of RAID and Flash memory. The studies on Flash memory discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Universal memory and Write amplification. While the journal focused on Computer data storage, it was also able to explore topics like Workload, Data deduplication and Real-time computing.

  • Operating system (29.86%)
  • File system (19.13%)
  • Distributed computing (17.39%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • A study of practical deduplication (299 citations)
  • A five-year study of file-system metadata (290 citations)
  • Authentication and integrity in outsourced databases (279 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at ACM Transactions on Storage:

The most cited papers generally zeroe in on subjects such as Operating system, File system, RAID, Distributed computing and Database. The published papers address concerns in Operating system which are intertwined with other disciplines, such as Set (abstract data type), Embedded system and Flash storage. While Distributed computing is the focus of the published articles, it also provides insights into the studies of Temporal isolation among virtual machines, Converged storage, Computer data storage and Erasure code.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Operating system
  • Programming language
  • Computer network

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The objective of ACM Transactions on Storage is to combine knowledge in the areas of Operating system, Associative array, Computer data storage, File system and Cache. Discussions in it are anchored in the subject of Operating system and the similar topic of Tree based. The studies in Computer data storage featured incorporate elements of Cover (telecommunications), Networking hardware, Page and Backup.

While File system is the key highlight in ACM Transactions on Storage, it also covered some subjects on Block (data storage) and ext4, Data loss, Unavailability and Write amplification. The Key (cryptography) research presented in ACM Transactions on Storage explores the relationship between Workload and the closely related topic of Distributed computing. The research on RAID featured in the journal combines topics in other fields like Scheme (programming language), Set (abstract data type) and Enterprise storage.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • SSD-based Workload Characteristics and Their Performance Implications (5 citations)
  • Performance Modeling and Practical Use Cases for Black-Box SSDs (1 citations)
  • NVMM-Oriented Hierarchical Persistent Client Caching for Lustre (1 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in ACM Transactions on Storage (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau (15 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 more than at the previous edition,
  • Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau (15 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Erez Zadok (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jiwu Shu (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tei-Wei Kuo (8 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in ACM Transactions on Storage (based on the number of publications) are:

  • IBM (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Huazhong University of Science and Technology (22 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition,
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (18 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition,
  • Microsoft (18 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tsinghua University (15 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition, 1 less than at the previous edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 13.33% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 46.15% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 11.54% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 11.54% of all publications and 30.77% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Career Pathways in the Research Field

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Top Publications

  • RocksDB: Evolution of Development Priorities in a Key-value Store Serving Large-scale Applications

    Siying Dong;Andrew Kryczka;Yanqin Jin;Michael Stumm

    (2021)
    162 Citations
  • Fast Erasure Coding for Data Storage: A Comprehensive Study of the Acceleration Techniques

    Tianli Zhou;Chao Tian

    (2020)
    38 Citations
  • Information Leakage in Encrypted Deduplication via Frequency Analysis: Attacks and Defenses

    Jingwei Li;Patrick P. C. Lee;Chufeng Tan;Chuan Qin

    (2020)
    37 Citations
  • On Fault Tolerance, Locality, and Optimality in Locally Repairable Codes

    Oleg Kolosov;Gala Yadgar;Matan Liram;Itzhak Tamo

    (2020)
    34 Citations
  • Inspection and Characterization of App File Usage in Mobile Devices

    Cheng Ji;Riwei Pan;Li-Pin Chang;Liang Shi

    (2020)
    23 Citations
  • Practical Design Considerations for Wide Locally Recoverable Codes (LRCs)

    (2023)
    17 Citations
  • Pattern-Based Prefetching with Adaptive Cache Management Inside of Solid-State Drives

    (2022)
    15 Citations
  • XStore: Fast RDMA-Based Ordered Key-Value Store Using Remote Learned Cache

    Xingda Wei;Rong Chen;Haibo Chen;Binyu Zang

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • Exploration and Exploitation for Buffer-Controlled HDD-Writes for SSD-HDD Hybrid Storage Server

    (2022)
    14 Citations
  • An In-depth Comparative Analysis of Cloud Block Storage Workloads: Findings and Implications

    (2022)
    13 Citations

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